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Kristian Rosenvold edited comment on SUREFIRE-735 at 5/8/11 1:33 PM:
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Which version of surefire and which OS is this on ? I am unable to reproduce 
this with any version of surefire on linux.

Make sure you also try the latest released version (2.8.1) if you haven't done 
so

      was (Author: krosenvold):
    Which version of surefire and which OS is this on ? I am unable to 
reproduce this with any version of surefire on linux.
  
> Surefire plugin does not report fatal VM creation failure
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-735
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-735
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: James Phillpotts
>
> Background:
> In a large project with a lot of test classes and classes under test, memory 
> settings have been tuned to prevent test failure. However, Java is fussy 
> about some memory settings, and if it cannot allocate the amount of memory 
> needed, the VM will fail to start.
> Problem:
> When surefire encounters this failure to start, the problem is reported to 
> the user as follows:
> {noformat}
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] There are test failures.
> Please refer to [snip]\target\surefire-reports for the individual test 
> results.
> {noformat}
> The surefire-reports directory does not exist within target.
> Using debug mode, the command that is executed is found, and when run from a 
> command prompt window, the following output is received:
> {noformat}
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> Could not reserve enough space for object heap
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> {noformat}
> Obviously there is nothing surefire can do about the failure to start the VM, 
> but the error output from the VM itself should be passed back to the user, so 
> that they can do something to remedy it.
> I'd supply some steps to reproduce it, but as it would depend on the memory 
> available on the machine used to test it, they wouldn't necessarily work, but 
> by playing with the Xmx and Xms settings, it should be possible to duplicate 
> this.

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